Contents 1
Vladimir Nabokov(1899—1977) 1
The Admiralty Spire 3
Anais Nin(1903—1977) 22
Hejda 23
Issac Bashevis Singer(1904—1991) 37
Neighbors 38
Robert Penn Warren(1905—1989) 53
Birth of Love 55
Open House 60
Theodore Roethke(1908—1963) 60
Weed Puller 61
Tennessee Williams(1911—1983) 63
The Glass Menagerie—Scene 5-7 65
John Cheever(1912—1982) 136
The Enormous Radio 138
Irwin Shaw(1913—1984) 155
The Young Lions—Chapter 34 156
Ralph Ellison(1914—) 167
Invisible Man—Prologue,Chapter I 168
Bernard Malamud(1914—1986) 198
from The Assistant 199
Randall Jarrel(1914—1965) 237
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 238
John Berryman(1914—1972) 240
The Ball Poem 241
Saul Bellow(1915—) 244
Seize the Day—Chapter I 245
Arthur Miller(1915—) 277
Death of a Salesman—Act 2 279
Robert Lowell(1917—1977) 359
For Sale 359
Waking in the Blue 361
For the Union Dead 365
J．D．Salinger(1919—) 371
The Catcher in the Rye—Chapter 17,Chapter 22 372
Betty Friedan(1921—) 400
How to Get the Women s Movement Moving Again 401
Alex Haley(1921—1992) 433
Roots—Chapter 33-36,Chapter 39 434
Jack Kerouac(1922—1969) 482
On the Road—Part Ⅱ Chapter 6 483
Kurt Vonnegut(1922—) 507
Report on the Barnhouse Effect 508
Norman Mailer(1923—) 529
The Armies of the Night—Book Ⅰ Part Ⅳ 2．TheMarshal and the Nazi 530
James Dickey(1923—) 543
The Lifeguard 544
Joseph Heller(1923—) 548
Catch-22——Chapter 40,Chapter 42 549
James Baldwin(1924—1987) 587
from Notes of a Native Son 589
Flannery O Connor(1925—1964) 622
Everything That Rises Must Converge 623
William Styron(1925—) 649
Lie Down in Darkness—Chapter 1 650
Allen Ginsberg(1926—) 681
America 682
James Wright(1927—1980) 689
A Blessing 690
Edward Albee(1928—) 692
The Zoo Story 694
Martin Luther King Jr.(1929—1968) 733
I Have a Dream 734
Gary Snyder(1930—) 741
Riprap 742
Piute Creek 744
Meeting the Mountains 746
John Barth(1930—) 748
Title 749
Toni Morrison(1931—) 762
Song of Solomon—Chapter I 764
John Updike(1932—) 802
A P 803
Sylvia Plath(1932—1963) 815
Daddy 816
Death Co 821
Philip Roth(1933—) 824
Goodbye,Columbus—Chapter 1-3 825
Incident 866
Le Roi Jones(1934—) 866
Marie Winn(1936—) 869
The Plug-in Drug:TV and the American Family 869
Thomas Pynchon(1937—) 887
The Crying of Lot 49—Chapter 4 888
Joyce Carol Oates(1938—) 911
Them—Book Ⅱ Chapter 6 912
Sam Sheperd(1943—) 944
Buried Child—Act 3 946
Alice Walker(1944—) 990
The Civil Rights Movement:What Good Was It? 991